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Some of the artworks that survived the September fire at a gallery that held art works by members of the Wyeth family in the village of Port Clyde, Maine, Dec. 29, 2023. An heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune who made the paintings of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth part of her life has enlisted Jamie to help undo the damage of a fire in Port Clyde. (Tristan Spinski/The New York Times)
by Ralph Blumenthal
NEW YORK, NY.- Her grandfather founded outfitting giant L.L. Bean, whose gear has become synonymous with a woodsy lifestyle. She became a force in lobstering and tourism with companies of her own, and a lightning rod for critics who object to her outspoken conservative views. But Linda Bean has also been a passionate fan of the arts, in particular of the painting clan of Wyeths, three generations of American realists who have long owned homes not far from her own in coastal Maine. Her favorite is Newell Convers Wyeth, best known for his classic book illustrations of characters such as Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans and the pirates in Treasure Island. I love his art, I just love it, Bean, 8 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Following its success in Malmö, the "Lotte Laserstein: A Divided Life" exhibition is now on view at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. It includes the seminal work Evening Over Potsdam. Installation view. Photo: Mattias Lindbäck/Moderna Museet.
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| Monumental tapestries on view in exhibition at The Kunsthistorisches Museum | | Exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of Marisol's vast practice | | The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza presents 'Women Masters' | 
Exhibition view © KHM-Museumsverband
VIENNA.- The Kunsthistorisches Museum is dedicating its large autumn show of 2023 to a medium that is intricately intertwined with Renaissance celebration and prestige: monumental tapestries. The central focus is the series of depictions featuring the life and acts of the apostles St Peter and St Paul by the momentous painter Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael (1483 1520). The exhibition traces the sustained influence Raphaels compositions had on stylistic developments, in particular of Flemish wall hangings. They were picked up on by renowned artists including Barend van Orley, Michiel Coxcie and Pieter Coecke van Aelst. The latter contributed among others the designs for the spectacular series of The Seven Deadly Sins that is rarely on show and forms another highlight in this exhibition. The huge wall rugs with ... More | | 
Marisol (1930-2016), John Washington, and Emily Roebling Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge for the First Time, 1989. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, bequest of Marisol, 2016, 2021:50a-u. © Estate of Marisol / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts opened the exhibition Marisol: A Retrospective. Organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and drawn largely on the collection of artworks Marisol kept in her personal possession and left to the Buffalo AKG upon her death, in a historic and transformative bequest, this major touring show devoted to Marisol (Venezuelan and American, born in France, 19302016), offers a comprehensive survey of her vast practice, spanning nearly sixty years. Although her singular sculptures were associated with the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and although she had been lauded as the female artist of her generation, Marisols work ... More | | 
Installation view.
MADRID.- Artemisia Gentileschi, Angelica Kauffmann, Clara Peeters, Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, MarÃa Blanchard, Natalia Goncharova, Sonia Delaunay and Maruja Mallo were celebrated artists in their lifetimes who are now enjoying renewed recognition in response to their erasure from the art-historical account, alongside other lesser-known figures who broke moulds with works of undoubted excellence. The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting Women Masters, an exhibition curated from a feminist perspective by RocÃo de la Villa. It features 100 works, including paintings, sculptures, works on paper and textiles, which together offer a survey of artistic creations by women from the late 16th century to the early decades of the 20th century, presented in the form of eight sections on contexts of significance for the path towards female emancipation. Starting ... More |
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| Christie's projected global sales total: $6.2 billion in 2023 | | New sculpture works by Michael Dean on view at Mendes Wood DM | | Tom Smothers, comic half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86 | 
Georgina Hilton selling Jean-Michel Basquiats El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile) for USD $67,110,000 at Christies New York, May 15, 2023. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- 2023 has been a paradoxical year for Christies. A challenging macro-environment and the art market contraction explain our lower auction totals compared to the record sales of the previous year. At the same time, however, we are pleased by the business decisions we have made in 2023. We saw an increase in private sales and a strong influx of new and younger clients at auction. We have been continuing our judicious investments in innovation and expansion. We are confident for the future, with a promising pipeline of consignments already in motion for 2024. ---Guillaume Cerutti, Chief Executive Officer, Christies 8 Key Take-Aways From 2023: 1. Christies projected global sales total for art and luxury categories $6.2B / £5B / 5.8B / HK$48.7B (+7% USD ... More | | 
Michael Dean, Lamp black on sack cloth (love for fucksake), Mendes Wood DM Paris.
PARIS.- Mendes Wood DM Paris is currently presenting a solo exhibition of new sculpture works by Michael Dean, Lamp black on sack cloth (love for fucksake). The show is the second to take place at the new Paris gallery, and marks a decade since Dean first started exhibiting at Mendes Wood DM. Dean's work always strikes a balance between form and text, predominated by materials such as concrete and paper, and this time is no different. In this new series, the artist presents a series of paintings framed by concrete sculptures, subverting the paradigm of the frame itself. The paintings are built upon two elements that form the basis of the artist's works: the structure of the sculpture and dialogue with the context. The relationship with sculpture is multifaceted. In one respect, the frame is used in a traditional way, separating what is inside from the outside world. But at the same time, in Dean's work, the parameters of the relationshi ... More | | 
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1993 TV series).
by William Grimes
NEW YORK, NY.- Tom Smothers, the older half of the comic folk duo the Smothers Brothers, whose skits and songs on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late 1960s brought political satire and a spirit of youthful irreverence to network television, paving the way for shows like Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show, died Tuesday at his home in Santa Rosa, California, a city in Sonoma County. He was 86. He died following a recent battle with cancer, a spokesperson for the National Comedy Center announced on behalf of the family. The Smothers Brothers made their way to network television as a folk act with a difference. With Tom playing guitar and Dick playing stand-up bass, they spent as much time bickering as singing. With an innocent expression and a stammering delivery, Tom would try to introduce ... More |
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| Following its success in Malmo, Lotte Laserstein exhibition on view in Stockholm | | MOCA presents Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio's first solo museum exhibition | | Unusual names can complicate life in Japan. Now parents are being reined in. | 
Lotte Laserstein, Nora Bigner, 1938 Photo: Lotte Laserstein Archiv Krausse, Berlin ©Lotte Laserstein Bildupphovsrätt 2023.
STOCKHOLM.- A Divided Life is the most extensive exhibition of work by the ground-breaking German-Swedish artist Lotte Laserstein to date in the Nordic Region. Following its success in Malmö, the exhibition is now opening at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The show includes Lasersteins large-scale masterpiece Evening Over Potsdam and will be accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition catalogue. A Divided Life focuses as much on the multifaceted works the artist created while in exile in Sweden as it does on those she made before leaving Germany. Lotte Laserstein (18981993) is one of the art worlds most exciting recent rediscoveries. Exhibitions of her work in Germany have attracted broad audiences eager to explore this long-forgotten artist and have established a place for her in the history of twentieth-century art. However, these shows focused primarily on Lasersteins work from the 1920s to the beginning of the 1930s ... More | | 
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, La ceiba me salvó / The Ceiba Saved Me, 2020, cast rubber with ficus tree surface residues on found cloth; glazed stoneware; twine; and wooden support, approx. 122 à 86 à 5 3/4 in. (309.9 à 218.4 à 14.6 cm). Collection of Michael Sherman and Carrie Tivador. © Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, image courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles and Mexico City. Photo by Ruben Diaz.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio from November 12, 2023, through June 16, 2024, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. The first solo museum exhibition for Los Angelesbased artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (b. 1990, Los Angeles), the exhibition explores Aparicios engagements with the Salvadoran communities in which he was raised, his formal experimentation with natural materialsincluding rubber, amber, glass, and clayand his approach to social justice as a form of ecological justice. Admission to MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio is free courtesy of Carolyn Clark Powers. MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio features artworks dating from 2016 to the present and ... More | | 
Paperwork showing Yuuki Matsumotos childhood name, Yuni, at his residence in Yokohama, Japan on Aug. 24, 2023. (Shina Peng/The New York Times)
by Hikari Hida
TOKYO.- Growing up, all Yuni Matsumoto wanted was to fit in. But his name made that hard. It was highly uncommon in Japan and, on top of that, essentially unreadable as written. Middle school classmates ridiculed him. The bullying got so bad that he eventually dropped out of school. Matsumoto, 24, had what is known as a kira-kira meaning shiny or glittery name. A growing number of Japanese parents are choosing these unconventional names, often in hopes of making their children stand out in a country where pressure to conform is strong. Matsumotos parents were driven by that same desire for uniqueness, but to him, his name was a shackle. This spring, he went to family court and had it changed to a common one, Yuuki, written in a way anyone could read. I felt like I had finally been freed, he said. Japan is far from the only ... More |
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| MCA Chicago presents 'entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico' | | Out now: 'John M Armleder: It Never Ends' | | Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset transform Kunsthalle Praha into a curious public library | 
Opening day of entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico at the MCA Chicago, August 19, 2023. Photo: Shelby Ragsdale, © MCA Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago opened the exhibition entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico, organized by Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates. The exhibition will be open through May 5, 2024, in the Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Galleries. The MCA is thrilled to showcase a project that underlines the deeply intertwined histories of Chicago and Puerto Rico, Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn said. The MCA has always played a foundational role in supporting the art of Chicago and its people. By celebrating the cultural exchange between Chicago and Puerto Rico, entre horizontes is another step in this direction. entre horizontes examines the intersection of art and social ... More | | 
John M Armleder: It Never Ends. Published with KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels. English / French / Dutch, 246 pages, softcover, 21 x 26 cm ISBN 979-12-8579-19-5
MILAN.- Between an artists book and a catalogue, this publication follows up on John M Armleders multidimensional exhibition at KANAL in 202021. Through archival pictures and in depth conversations, the unusual form of the book is designed to recreate the immersive experience of this collective experiment, and proposes a dive into something akin to a large self-portrait, conceived through the works of more than a hundred artists. It Never Ends was a carte blanche experiment by Swiss artist John M Armleder at KANAL Centre Pompidou in Brussels. This collective and multidisciplinary exhibition took place over nine months over the six floors of KANAL Centre Pompidous Showroom: a spectacular 6000 m2 space at the forefront of the former ... More | | 
The sprawling exhibition READ focuses on the historic and enduring relevance of books.
PRAGUE.- For their first major exhibition in Czechia, Elmgreen & Dragset are presenting their own work alongside artworks by sixty artists. Encompassing various decades, geographic regions, and artistic movements, many of these works have been selected from Kunsthalle Praha's Collection, while other artists have been personally invited by the duo to participate. The sprawling exhibition READ focuses on the historic and enduring relevance of books. Designed as a minimalist version of a contemporary public library, it also questions our relationship with books as physical objects and knowledge in the age of digital media. The title not only encourages reading, but also learning and understanding, as in to read the signs, read a situation, and read the room. Pragues Library Culture: Inspired by Prague's literary heritage and culture of libraries, Elmgreen & Dragset completely ... More |
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 Norton Museum of Art to host first solo museum exhibition of artist Nora Maité NievesWEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The Norton Museum of Art is known for presenting art. But it also has a hand in the creation of art, and in the support of artists. The Museum is hosting mixed media artist Nora Maité Nieves first solo museum exhibition, Clouds in the Expanded Field, on view since Dec. 23, 2023, to April 28, 2024. It runs in tandem with Nieves artist-in-residency at the Norton, December 2023 through January 2024. The exhibition features her first exploration of video in Eyes of the Sea, a stop-motion animation that transforms the symbols, materials, patterns, and textures present in her painting and sculptural practice. In addition to the video work, this exhibition also features nearly 20 two-dimensional works, including nine works produced specifically for presentation at the Norton. Born in 1980 in Puerto Rico, Nieves, ... More  Lal Batman's first solo exhibition in Germany 'The Floor is Lava' now open at Anna Laudel DÃSSELDORF.- Lal Batmans first solo exhibition in Germany "The Floor is Lava" is now open at Anna Laudel Düsseldorf. Drawing inspiration from popular playground games, the exhibition can be visited until February 4th, 2024. Inspired by common childrens games played in schoolyards, the exhibition exceeds beyond the innocence of childhood games, to delve into complex themes such as ridden anxiety, impending catastrophes, and haunting memories which one is faced with throughout adulthood. Through her art, Batman aims to explore the multifaceted aspects of the human psyche and the anxieties that can manifest as people transit from childhood to adulthood. "This exhibition will make you feel like your feet were swept off the ground." Says Lal Batman about her first solo exhibition in Germany, Düsseldorf, which ... More  Fine automobiles and more in January gallery auctionALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans Auctions January Gallery Auction on Friday, January 19th, features numerous cars in excellent condition in addition to fine examples from the Fine Art and Asian Art departments. The auction is led by a 2023 Tesla Model X in Plaid Trim with only 3,901 miles, a 1965 Ford Mustang Hardtop Coupe, as well as a 1955 Ford Thunderbird. Also included is a Large Gilt Bronze Figure of an Immortal, a notable oil painting by Joseph Henry Sharp, and a 14k yellow gold charm bracelet. The auction is led by a 2023 Tesla Model X Plaid ($100/120,000) featuring Teslas Plaid premium trim, and full self-driving capability, all with only 3,901 miles. Also on offer, is a 1966 Ford Mustang Hardtop Coupe ($6/800), a classic edition of Americas most iconic automobile, this lot is a restorers special. Also available are a 1991 ... More  Queer perspectives explored through essays on works by New York artistsNEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collections new publication, Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, explores the pairing of four commissions by New Yorkbased artists Jenna Gribbon, Doron Langberg, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Salman Toor with iconic works in the museums holdings by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Holbein. The new works each address issues of gender and Queer identity and were presented at various points between September 2021 and September 2022 in conversation with their respective Old Master paintings at Frick Madison, the Fricks temporary home at the Breuer building. During the installation series, Gribbons What Am I Doing Here? I Should Ask You the Same (2022) was displayed with Holbeins Thomas Cromwell; Langbergs Lover (2021) was shown in dialogue with Holbeins Sir Thomas More; Ojih Odutolas ... More  Mad Arts opens permanent immersive media art museum year-round exhibitionsFORT LAUDERDALE, FL.- Mad Arts, an incubator for technology-forward projects and collaborations, announces the opening of a new immersive art museum slated to officially open during IGNITE Broward festival on January 24, 2024. The opening of this permanent home in Dania Beach marks a watershed moment for South Floridas art and technology ecosystem. With more than triple the current gallery space and an outdoor garden, the multi-million-dollar museum expansion enables Mad Arts to present an ambitious high-tech program showcasing experiential artwork driven by emerging technologies. Executive Director Marc Aptakins vision for the 50,000 sq ft building is a bold concept that responds to the rapid pace of technological advancements and the importance of culture as a unifying force. I'm proud we can bring ... More  Helen Williams, a top model in a segregated era, is dead at 87NEW YORK, NY.- Swan-necked and with an arched-eyebrow hauteur, Helen Williams was the aspirational face of the Black middle class in the 1950s and 60s the most photographed, and highest paid, Black model of her era. She was a frequent cover girl for Ebony, Jet and Tan magazines, and the face aligned with many of the products advertised within, from Kodak to Modess to Simplicity Patterns. She was a ladylike beauty in Budweiser ads; a poised career girl smoking Kent cigarettes. She telegraphed luxury for Bulova watches and put on a sporty mien for Mum deodorant. When she spent a month in Paris in 1960, working as a house model for Christian Dior and Jean Dessès, Ebony covered the trip of Americas most successful Negro model in breathless prose. By the end of her visit, the magazine wrote, she had received three ... More  What our critics are looking forward to in 2024NEW YORK, NY.- Early in 1969, the Metropolitan Museum in New York City sparked an uproar with an exhibition called Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968. Though conceived as the museums first big-ticket acknowledgment of African American creativity, it included no visual art beyond documentary photomurals. Black artists, many working in Harlem just blocks north of the museum, angrily picketed the show, denouncing it as evidence of art world racism writ large. As a student visiting New York in 1969, I saw, and was baffled by, that show, so Im eager to see a new one that can only be viewed as a corrective to it, the marquee-scale survey of paintings, sculptures, photographs and films titled The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism scheduled to open at the Met in February. The announced ... More  Strawberry Hill in focus 2024-25TWICKENHAM.- Strawberry Hill House continues its acclaimed In Focus series through 2024-25 with displays of extraordinary objects and artworks that have a connection with its original owner, Horace Walpole (1717-1797). Featuring paintings by Jan Van Huysum (1682 - 1749), a bronze bust of Caligula and three mysterious daggers, each exhibition will tease out the fascinating facts and hidden histories connecting these artworks to this remarkable writer, connoisseur and collector. Evocatively demonstrating Jan Van Huysums (1682-1749) gift for creating sophisticated still life compositions depicting flowers and fruits, Strawberry Hill House is delighted to present the Dutch 18th-century masters Flowers in a Vase with Crown Imperial and Apple Blossom at the Top and a Statue of Flora (1731-2) and Fruit and Flowers in front of a Garden ... More  The Broad opens 'Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog), Celebrating Los Angeles Artists'LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Broad is presenting Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog), a free exhibition drawn entirely from the Broad collection, showcasing works by Los Angeles-based artists. Drawing its title from a piece by John Baldessari, the exhibition often oscillates between local takes on a city in flux and turmoil, and reflections outward to evolving issues of artmaking and global concerns. Running from November 18, 2023 to April 7, 2024, the exhibition is on view throughout the museums first floor galleries and includes the work of 21 artists across varying generations who were raised in the Los Angeles area, such as Doug Aitken and Lari Pittman, or relocated to the city, including Catherine Opie and Mike Kelley. Organized by The Broads Curator Ed Schad and Curatorial Assistant Jennifer Vanegas Rocha, the exhibition ... More  Exhibition at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art features the work of Barbara T. SmithLOS ANGELES, CA.- ICA LA's current exhibition, Barbara T. Smith: Proof the first survey of the artists long careerspans nearly six decades from the 1960s to today and chronicles Smith's indelible contributions to the history of performance art and so much more. In addition to working in performance, Smith has always been a maker of things and an archivist of her output. Her unswervingly bold experimentation flows from her earliest paintings, Xerox prints, drawings, and sculptures to the wide range of objects and ephemera made for, and often resulting from, her performance art works. Together, they offer proof of a life lived as art. On view at ICA LA until January 14, 2024, this presentation builds upon previous exhibitions of Smith's work at the Getty Research Institute (GRI), The Box, and other venues, further amplifying our ... More  Dates and programmes announced for the 19th Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, 2024BERWICK-UPON-TWEED.- Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival have shared that the 2024 Festival will take place over the long weekend of Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 March 2024. The 19th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival draws upon ideas of liberation and freedom in our global context, featuring premieres from Basma al-Sharif, Emilia Beatriz, Ghassan Salhab, Heiny Srour, Leida Laius and Onyeka Igwe. Festival Passes grant access to the entire festival programme of films, exhibitions, talks, and parties. This years programme centres narratives of struggle and desire for personal, collective and political liberation. We look to films capable of grappling with complex entanglements, expressing disciplines of hope that may draw us closer together. This years Filmmaker in focus is Basma Al-Sharif, for a strand of the festival that seeks to redress ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Piero di Cosimo was born January 02, 1462. Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 - 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was a Florentine painter of the Italian Renaissance. He is most famous for the mythological and allegorical subjects he painted in the late Quattrocento. In this image: Piero di Cosimo, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Alexandria, Peter, and John the Evangelist with Angels, completed by 1493. Oil and tempera on panel, 203 x 197 cm (79 7/8 x 77 1/2 in.). Museo degli Innocenti, Florence.
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